The Vitamin D DANGER They Ignored (For Profit)

The medical establishment has fostered an irrational fear of vitamin D toxicity and promoted insufficient dosages, overlooking its critical role as a hormone that activates numerous genes and benefits overall health, potentially due to the financial impact on the pharmaceutical industry.

• Conventional medicine misrepresents vitamin D, underestimating its hormonal function and importance beyond bone health.

• The pharmaceutical industry has a financial incentive to suppress information about vitamin D's broad therapeutic potential.

• Vitamin D deficiency is a widespread and serious health concern, while true vitamin D toxicity is exceedingly rare and often misunderstood.

Conventional medicine has perpetuated a fear of vitamin D toxicity, advocating for dosages too low to be biologically effective, while neglecting its hormone-like function in regulating over a thousand genes and supporting various bodily systems. This perspective might be influenced by the significant financial implications for the pharmaceutical industry, as vitamin D can reduce the risk of many diseases currently treated with expensive drugs. It is suggested that prioritizing vitamin D deficiency, a common problem, is more crucial than an exaggerated concern for toxicity, which is rare.

Misconceptions of Vitamin D

• 00:00:00 Traditional medical advice promotes fear of vitamin D toxicity, citing risks of high calcium and kidney damage, despite humans evolving under intense sun exposure without issues. It is argued that the conventional 'safe amounts' of vitamin D are too small to be biologically effective for most conditions. Additionally, vitamin D is not truly a vitamin, as it is primarily synthesized by the skin from cholesterol and functions more like a hormone, activating over a thousand genes.

• 00:01:30 Mainstream medicine largely focuses on vitamin D's role in bone and calcium regulation, requiring liver and kidney conversion, which leads to an inactive form before activation. However, there is another lesser-discussed system, the intracrine or paracrine system, where inactive vitamin D is converted within cells without requiring liver or kidney involvement. This system is crucial for the immune system, brain, muscles, nervous system, and various tissues, requiring 8,000 to 10,000 IUs of D3 daily, in contrast to the much lower doses for bone health typically emphasized by conventional medicine.

• 00:03:29 The potential benefits of vitamin D, such as reducing cancer risk, improving autoimmune diseases (e.g., 90% success rate for MS with high doses, as per Dr. Cobra's protocol), and impacting diabetes, high blood pressure, and depression, could significantly disrupt the multi-billion dollar revenues of the pharmaceutical industry. Mainstream medicine is observed to avoid publishing positive research on vitamin D, potentially due to its status as a free, unpatentable hormone that could reduce reliance on expensive drugs, causing a substantial 'dent' in pharmaceutical profits.

• 00:05:25 The concern over vitamin D toxicity is hyper-focused, leading to recommendations of insignificantly low doses (600-800 IUs), with some doctors even labeling 2,000-4,000 IUs as toxic, despite 20 minutes of summer sun yielding 10,000 IUs. Vitamin D also signals seasonal changes to the body; deficiency mimics winter, leading to metabolic slowdown, weight gain, mood issues, and immune suppression. The increase in melanoma since 1980, when sun avoidance became widespread, suggests that sun fear and vitamin D deficiency might be misdirected, and high doses of vitamin D3 are only toxic in extremely rare circumstances, often when critical cofactors like magnesium and vitamin K2 are not considered.